Two-faced Gov. Kathy Hochul plays New York and Donald Trump for fools

Watching Gov.Hochul stumble from one blunder to another, I’m reminded of Casey Stengel’s exasperated question about the hapless 1962 Mets: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” As it was with the Mets, the answer in Hochul’s case is a resounding no. More than three years after she took office, the accidental governor is still afraid to take off the training wheels. She’s not running Albany.

Albany is running her.The Legislature, far-left activists and the bureaucracy are in charge. The state and city are in obvious decline, but she hasn’t delivered a single reform big enough to make a real difference. High crime, public disorder, the migrant explosion, inferior schools and outrageous taxes are driving families out of New York.

Antisemitism is on the rise on nearly every college campus in the state, including in the SUNY and CUNY systems Hochul controls, yet she says little and does less. The bigger the problem, the smaller she appears.On her best days, she’s a caretaker for the status quo. And now she’s compounded the disaster with a foolish effort to play hide-and-seek games with Donald Trump.

This can’t end well for her or New York. The recent head-scratching conduct began with her pre-election claim that any New Yorker who voted for any Republican was anti-woman and anti-American. It was a dumb thing to say under any circumstance, and especially so given that a September poll found that state voters were more unhappy with her job performance than ever and gave Trump higher marks than she. A wiser politician would have gotten the point that she’s offsides with many voters, which was confirmed when Trump won the presidency with an Electoral College landslide and got a startling 44% of the turnout in deep blue New York. Hochul’s immediate response was to pick an unnecessary fight with him.She and Attorney General Letitia James held a nasty press conference where they took turns warning Trump they would come after him with hamm...